Tuesday News

Leech Lake has been awarded a $770,000 U.S. Department of Transportation grant to improve the Boy River bridge: http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/100042649/

This weekend, Grand Portage holds its traditional powwow in conjunction with the Grand Portage National Monument's rendezvous: http://www.cookcountymnevents.com/calendar/cookcountymnevents-com-calendar-grand-portage-pow-wow-Aug-10-2012
Former White Earth Tribal and Community College President Helen Marie Klassen is remembered in this Detroit Lakes Tribune obituary: http://www.dl-online.com/event/obituary/id/69192/

The Duluth, Minnesota, Art Institute hosts the exhibit "Spirit of the Ojibwe," featuring portraits of Lac Courte Oreilles elders painted by Sara Balbin: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/calendarEvent/id/88486/date/2012-08-08/

Duluth FOX affiliate local news director Jason Vincent resigned after posting an insensitive and dehumanizing statement about an Anishinaabe man on Facebook:

• "Duluth TV News Director Resigns after Facebook Incident" (Park Rapids Enterprise) http://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/event/article/id/33668/
• "Duluth's FOX 21 News Director Resigns over Facebook Flap" (Duluth News Tribune) http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/239198/
• "Facebook Post by TV News Director Sparks Firestorm" (LostRemote) http://www.lostremote.com/2012/08/06/facebook-post-by-tv-news-director-sparks-firestorm/
• "FOX 21 News Director Resigns" (ABC WDIO) http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/s2718475.shtml
• "News Director, Vincent, Apologizes for Facebook Post" (Crookston Times) http://www.crookstontimes.com/news/x1607171304/News-director-Vincent-apologizes-for-Facebook-post

Wisconsin State Senator Dale Schultz has been awarded the Sierra Club's 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award for his work advocating for Bad River during the proposed mining situation: http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-08-07&val=351906&cat=material

Red Cliff is included in a recent FEMA Wisconsin disaster declaration regarding this summer's severe flooding: http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2012/08/06/258372.htm

Olympic boxer Mary Spencer (Cape Croaker Ojibwa) lost her match to Jinzi Li of China: http://www.straight.com/article-748001/vancouver/boxer-mary-spencer-goes-down-defeat